San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-16
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


MEXICAN patriotism Ia a good thing.
So is the American article. Do the
Mexicans honor their substitute patriots
who defame the characters Of patriot
soldiers as "tramps," "paupers" and
TREASURY leeches"? The LIGHT trusts
not.
The sovereign OF San Pedro has his
way and the new county court house
and city hall are doomed to location a.
la.jug -handle-thst Is completely to one
side OF the center present and prospec-
tive, unless the Injunction threatened
holds good.
BROOKLYN, the city Of churches, shows
healthy signs OF a progressive republi-
can increase. Ii Is only a question Of
time when the mugwump craze OF 1884
shall have gone whispering down the
wales OF silence to be lost In the echOless
caves OF iDarticulation.
Ir is reported from Georgia thst Gov.
Gordon is only waiting a chance to veto
the Glenn bill. II he does he embraces
q supreme opportunity Of his life and
lays the democratic party Of the United
States under extreme obligations for the
destruction Of a great deal OF republican
campaign thunder In 1888.
KATKoFF, the deceased littery lion of
Moscow, and the great pan-sclavist OF
the Russian press, has left behind him
a mass OF papers which will be given to
the world under the editorial supervision
of his widow. The issue will reach
eight volumes. The first Of which was
ready for press when the distinguished
writer died.
THE anarchists are exceedingly
anxious that Benjamin +. Butler should
undertake to engineer them out OF the
deadly peril into which they have dyna-
mited themselves. There is point be-
yond which even Benjamin cannot save.
That point has been reached in this
case and the big Boston lawyer might as
well remain In his own bean patch.
THE vivid Imagination that sees a
splendid county courthouse and city
hall erected on Main plaza, is dimmed
by the vision OF said building being
side-tracked on some Military plaza
back lot and no hope Of any improve
ment on either Main or Alamo plaza be-
yond what a square acre Of circus post
ers can afford.
The Bucyrus, Ohio, Forum denies In
explicit terms the authorship of the
statement some weeks since credited to
1t to the effect that the G.. A. X. followed
the footsteps OF the army and plundered
its dead. The Forum says that the
stander originated with q rival journal
in its own city. The sentiment Is by no
mesns the Ohio Idea and the Forum
would have done well TO deny more
promptly.
Gov. FoBAKER's speech at Caldwell
one week since, at the opening of the
campaign, was most mastery in its ar.
raignment of the democratic administra-
tion of that state, Ohio, under Hoadly
and complete vindicatiOn of the repub-
liCan administration which followed.
The statistics were all there like song
with an Illustration, and Powell has not
dared to reply.
The Cincinnati Star Times is of the
opinion concerning the execution of the
anarchists, that II when done 'tWere
well done then 'twere well twas done
quickly. The s. r. thinks that punish
ment in such cases should not only be
sure but swift and that so long interval
between the crime and its punishment
deadens the impression and effect of the
retributiOn. The time made in the
trial OF these cases, considering the
manner in which they have been fOu ht
and the peculiar questions involved, has
not been unduly long. The public press
must not let its desire outrun discre-
tiOn. 1t was very necessary for the
courts TO avoid all appearance of haste
in matter in which public feeling WAS
exasperated and the demand hot for in
slant execution.
The Salvation Army In India is max
ing more converts each year among the
hiDdOos than the regular missionaries of
the cross have all done in decade. The
irregular diminishing OF these guerrilas
OF the Lords army seems to just suit the
tempers and compilations Of these i'm
questionable people. The great secret
OF their success, no doubt, lies In the
fact that, unlike all other teachers and
preachers, these salvationists make
themselves at home with the people,
copy their customs, eat as they eat, live
as they live and fall into line with
them as far as heather caste regulations
permit. The effect so far has been be-
yOnd all expectation and the converts
that they make are stirring up the SEN
sibilitIes and awsking the thoughtful
ness OF the old missionaries who have
been mourning their lack Of personal sue
cess.
THIS Is very trusty country. Be-
tween the STANDARD Oil Trust" and the
"COttOn-seed Oil Trust" and the "Lin-
seed Oil Trust" and the Chicago Gas
Trust" and the Rubber Trust" the
capitalist OF an independent turn of
mind is greatly bewildered. The only
alternatives seem to be Trust, "Rust"
or "Bust." The amount OF rated CAPT.
talization In these several trusts reaches
the enormous sum Of 1921 COG, 900, a large
per cent of which is water. This proves
that the old chemical allegation concern
ing the non-affinity OF water and Oil is a
mere myth, like the existence OF William
Tell, Round Table Arthur, Horace, Rob-
inson CrusOe, and all the favored
legends Of our school and birch rod DAYS.
The republican state conventions. so
far heard from, are following up the
same old line of march which has re-
suited in bringing this republic to a con-
dition OF unexampled greatness and
glory, and in facing her towards such a
future Of national progress as a nation,
with big IN" as not even a term of
democratic Encouragement and repudi-
alton can reverse. Taking back seat
for four years to note how government
10 Economically administered, and
learning new lessons Of wisdom from
the folly OF such administration, they
are preparing TO resume the reins of
government at the close of the approach
ing campaign, better instructed in the
arts OF wise administration of public
affairs than before. Wisdom learns les.
sons as well from its follies and failures
as from the miscarriages OF its enemies,
and this wisdom OF teachableness has
always been a republican characteristic.
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In the Whole Hideous Catalogue
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